Donald Trump and Republican elected officials are yet again attacking a critic of Israel — this time, Rashida Tlaib. By now, everyone should recognize these attacks as disingenuous attempts to shut down voices on the Left.
The historical record is clear: democracy was only won when poor people waged disruptive class struggle against the rich. We’ll need more of it to save democracy today.
Brett Payne and Bryan Quinby, hosts of Street Fight Radio, talk about their twisting paths to the Left through punk and libertarianism in suburban Ohio, hating your job and barely making it, and how to prevent angry young white men from going over to the alt right.
Beto, Buttigieg, and Biden all come from the same mold — they’re empty suits and poll-tested brands. We can and should demand something better.
Underneath all the kitsch and marketing pomp, the Clash still have something to teach us about art as a site of struggle.
Leftist politics in Indonesia have languished ever since the anticommunist massacres of the 1960s. The recent general elections were no exception.
Today’s version of Mother’s Day is a festival of greeting cards and commercial kitsch. But it began as a radical campaign against militarism and brutality.
With this month’s European Parliament elections approaching, the media is fixated on the far right. But in Brussels itself, it’s the radical left that’s changing the debate.
Millions-strong demonstrations in Algeria have forced authoritarian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika from office. Independent labor unions are fighting to ensure workers — not military officers — decide what happens next.
Europe’s rising far right want to make the EU elections a vote on defending national identity. For the socialist left, the elections are about defending the planet itself.
After Republicans lost their first election in 1856, the nineteenth-century Nate Silvers were happy to declare the antislavery movement a radical, fringe idea. Four years later, Abraham Lincoln won on a radical program of change.
Our goal shouldn’t be to lower hospitals’ prices, but to eliminate them entirely. Medicare for All is the way to achieve that.
Bernie Sanders and AOC are pushing for rules that would put payday lenders out of business — and end Wall Street’s business model of exploiting the poor.
It’s the fortieth anniversary of Apocalypse Now’s voyeuristic adventure to the dark side of human nature. But the real victims of the Vietnam War are forgotten in its cheap thrills.
The Financial Times thinks Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn are would-be despots. They’re wrong — it’s socialists, not centrists, who will save democracy.
Despite brutal working conditions and massive industry profits, few video game workers have taken collective action on the job. That changed on Monday, when two hundred Riot Games workers walked off the job.
The Democrats’ congressional campaign arm is trying to blacklist the Left. We welcome their hatred.
Russiagate hysteria is already being used to push Trump into an act of armed aggression against Venezuela. It’s a disastrous result of a pointless delusion.
Turkey’s recent election saw the ruling party’s control over Istanbul broken. Now, the regime wants a re-do.
Uber and Lyft drivers have called a one-day strike on the day of Uber’s initial public offering. But their strike is about more than fighting the exploitation of the “sharing economy” — it’s about a right to the city.